Re: I look for proxy cache like apt-proxy (for Debian Package) but for python eggs package…
Steve Holden
steve at holdenweb.com
Sat Dec 19 20:58:30 EST 2009
Diez B. Roggisch wrote:
> Klein Stéphane schrieb:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I look for a tools to do proxy cache like apt-proxy (for Debian
>> Package) but for python eggs package.
>>
>> Can a easy-install option perform this feature ?
>
> No. But you might install EggBasket, which is a PyPI-like server.
>
> http://www.chrisarndt.de/projects/eggbasket/
>
> However, it is *not* a proxy, and to the best of my knowledge that's not
> easily done anyway due to the way easy_install is working. It scrapes
> the website it is pointed to, and when it finds something it likes,
> follows that.
>
> Thus the server doesn't get an idea *what* easy_install is looking for,
> and thus can't relay the request to the "real" PyPI, fetching the egg,
> storing it locally, and then re-deliver it.
>
> Instead what we do with eggbasket is to copy all the eggs we obtained by
> other means into a central repository that he serves. Thus we have them
> backed-up & available even if PyPI or the actual package go away.
>
> Diez
Time that software came out of beta! What needs fixing before a release?
regards
Steve
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